Patents.

Apparatus method and computer program product for client/server computing with improved transactional interface

A non-legacy server apparatus for use in a client/server computing system for participation in a distributed transaction with a legacy server apparatus, the non-legacy server apparatus has: a non-legacy transactional application participating in a distributed transaction along with a legacy application on a legacy server apparatus; and a non-legacy transaction service which coordinates the distributed transaction and receives transactional calls from the non-legacy transactional application; wherein the non-legacy transaction service includes a mapping layer for directly mapping non-legacy based transactional calls received from the non-legacy transactional application to legacy based transactional calls for transmission to the legacy server apparatus, such that the non-legacy server apparatus does not need to include a legacy transaction service.

Method and apparatus for authenticating users

Iterative repair optimization with particular application to scheduling for integrated capacity and inventory planning

Multi-user, multiple tier distributed application architecture with single-user access control of middle tier objects

Microsoft Transaction Server: a run-time executive that manages the execution of software components in a multi-tier distributed application.

System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles

A system and method for scheduling the receipt of desired movies and other forms of data from a network, which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers, as in a cable television system. Customer profiles are developed for the recipient describing how important certain characteristics of the broadcast video program, movie, or other data are to each customer.

Method and apparatus for performing data collection, interpretation and analysis, in an information platform

An information platform automates the collection of data, provides a method for organizing the library of information and provides analysis using multiple content-types, thereby providing a user with a market understanding necessary to execute rapid and knowledgeable decision making. The information platform collects and integrates data, observations and intelligence; provides controls for multiple methods of information navigation and analysis; and allows details to be digested in the context of other data, regardless of its type. The information platform is a client/server implementation that is subdivided into four major sections, including: (1) Data Retrieval, which provides a sophisticated catalog for finding internal and external information and collection agents which retrieve specific information without user intervention; (2) Data Classification and Storage which handles the storage of the information once it has been gathered from a source; (3) Information Browsing, Query, Analysis, and Report Creation which provides information browsing, reporting, and analysis tools; and (4) Desktop Integration where the information platform takes information from a wide variety of formats (HTML, text, spreadsheet) and combines them all into a single format (HTML, text, spreadsheet).

Automatic scheduling of instructions to reduce code size

Data indexing technique

A semi-hierarchical reprogrammable FPGA architecture

A semi-hierarchical FPGA having a top level, a middle level and a low level. The top level having a plurality of first tiles, each of the plurality of first tiles having a freeway routing channel, and a plurality of first switch matrices disposed at each corner of each of the first tiles.

System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles

A system and method for scheduling the receipt of desired movies and other forms of data from a network which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers, as in a cable television system. Customer profiles are developed for the recipient describing how important certain characteristics of the broadcast video program, movie or other data are to each customer.

System and method for controlling data transmission between network elements

Method for data gathering around forms and search barriers

According to the invention, methods for gathering data around forms having one or more fields, enabling a wrapper program to extract semistructured information by determining combinations of values for fields associated with particular forms; submitting the particular forms repeatedly for all combinations of interest and providing the results returned for further processing. In select embodiments, the combinations of values for fields is a Cartesian product of the possible values for the fields. Values to be submitted in the form fields may be specified by using a programming language such as Site Description Language (SDL) or Java.

Lempel-Ziv data compression technique utilizing a dictionary pre-filled with frequent letter combinations, words and/or phrases

An adaptive compression technique which is an improvement to Lempel-Ziv (LZ) compression techniques, both for reducing required storage space and for reducing transmission time. Pre-filled compression dictionaries are utilized to address the problem in which the compression software starts with an empty dictionary.

System for generation of object profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects

This invention relates to customized electronic identification of desirable objects, such as news articles, in an electronic media environment. In particular it relates to a system that automatically constructs a target profile for each target object based on the frequency with which each word appears in an article relative to its overall frequency of use.

Net change management for object-oriented modeling

System and method for scheduling broadcast of and access to video programs and other data using customer profiles

A system and method for scheduling the receipt of desired movies and other forms of data from a network which simultaneously distributes many sources of such data to many customers, as in a cable television system. Customer profiles are developed for the recipient describing how important certain characteristics of the broadcast video program, movie or other data are to each customer.

System for generation of user profiles for a system for customized electronic identification of desirable objects

This invention relates to customized electronic identification of desirable objects, such as news articles, in an electronic media environment. In particular it relates to a system that automatically constructs a target profile for each target object based on word frequency, and a user profile from those target profiles.

Allowing inconsistency in a distributed client-server application

System and method for dynamic network topology exploration

Scatter-gather: a cluster-based method and apparatus for browsing large document collections

Method and apparatus for approximating a value between two endpoint values in a

Method and apparatus for pattern mapping system with self-reliability check

A pattern mapping system provides indication of reliability of pattern or category selection indicated by output nodes. The indication of reliability includes a quantitative indication of error in the output and an indication when training is insufficient for the system to respond to the input pattern accurately.

Color video data processing

Method for compresssing and decompressing color video data that uses luminance

Method and apparatus for compressing and decompressing color video data with an